Ranchero

Matt Birchler asks, as a Mastodon advocate (as we are too), “what makes it so that almost everyone who joins Mastodon gives up on it?”

Feedhouse is a new-to-me browser-based RSS reader with sharing, newsletter subscribing, search, read-later, and, importantly, no algorithms.

Charging for links.

Reddit can go fuck itself.

The open source xsukax X RSS Generator is a “lightweight, self-hosted RSS 2.0 feed generator for public X (formerly Twitter) profiles, built entirely as a single PHP application with SQLite caching.”

Fread is an open source “decentralized microblogging client that seamlessly integrates Mastodon, Bluesky, and RSS” for Android.

In Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users, the Open RSS folks explain how CloudFlare’s bot blockers stop RSS readers from reading feeds.

Sander van Dragt’s DailyFeed is an RSS reader that brings you the news once a day.

Matt Birchler’s new browser-based RSS reader Birchfeed works with NetNewsWire, Unread, Reader Classic, and other native apps.

Brett Terpstra’s new Marked Share is a free online publishing service designed to give your Markdown a beautiful, permanent home on the web.

Feedecho, inspired by EchoFeed (which is shutting down), is an open source self-hosted cross-poster — you can route items from feeds to “Mastodon, Bluesky, micro.blog, and email using configurable templates.”

Artemis is an RSS reader “designed to be slow and minimal.

Nextnews is an RSS reader for iOS that syncs with Nextcloud News.

Jeff Johnson writes, in If computers are the future, why are computer users expected to be permanently illiterate?

From open web champion Manton Reece comes a new RSS reader Inkwell: Inkwell is built around three main tabs: Today, Recent, and Fading.

Jeff Johnson notes that different types of windows on macOS Tahoe have different corner radiuses.

Gazette by Colin Weir is a lightweight Gmail-to-RSS bridge designed specifically for reading newsletters in standard RSS readers (like NetNewsWire, Reeder, or FreshRSS).

Marcin Wichary reminds us, in “Our programs are fun to use”, of the great Beagle Bros, the inspiration for so many indie app developers — of indies who went on to inspire other indies.

I didn’t have a new or new-to-me RSS reader to link to today — so consider this your periodic reminder about how awesome Unread is

FeedCity by Daniel Pietzsch says that it’s “Your feed reader for a stress-free way to follow websites.

Jake Spurlock writes of his new RSS reader in Today Comes to the Mac: Today on Mac uses a three-column layout: your feeds in the sidebar, articles in the middle, and the full article on the right.

Terry Godier announces his new RSS reader Current: The impulse was simpler than a philosophy: every RSS reader I tried made me feel bad.

If you use NetNewsWire you know Maurice Parker’s work — so much of NetNewsWire, from Feedbin and iCloud syncing to the iOS app itself, was written by him.

Joe Heck writes, in Navigation Notes – Agentic coding: The latest “frontier” models are north of 1.2 trillion parameters today, maybe bigger… Even with the breadth of data, it can only predict patterns that it’s seen before.

Sure, it’s been a while, but why not bring back the ol’ linkblog. 🐣🐥 I gave it a design very much inspired by what it used to look like in the mid-2000s — the idea was to make it look like I just started posting to it again.

Ranchero Software doesn’t have a new app — but Ranchero Software’s sister company Q Branch released Vesper.

So I can simplify things for myself and make it more likely I’ll actually post to my weblog, I’ve decided to put this weblog on hiatus and post everything on inessential.com.

Click on the picture of the FAMOUS BAND FROM THE NINETEEN-SIXTIES.